This Movie Stinks

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2004)

The premise behind this film fails to keep my interests because what goes on after the initial virus hit is so unrealistic that it cannot induce fear in me. A virus turns ordinary people into rage-filled zombies killing most of England's population. Fair enough. The power there goes out and contact with the outside world is lost. The characters assume the worst, they think the rest of the world has suffered the same fate as England, and don't even try to get off the island. Unfortunately for the story writer no one ever told him about things like that radios still pick up signals from France or that a smart character, you know, the kind you care about, might try to use a boat to get off the island. What about the Chunnel? Heck some people can swim across the English Channel. Instead the characters listen to their radio which tells them to come to the British Army...and what a great army it is, because after only one month they have degenerated into a bunch of power-driven thieving rapists -- doesn't Brittan have one of the top 5 armies in the world!??! Yet in the film they can't keep discipline for 4 weeks...unbelievable. Pepsi is everywhere, annoying! And odd seeing as the stuff is hard to find in England. So poorly written, and as for the tagline on the commercials "scariest movie since the exorcist." Wow, they want the viewer to think taking a digital cam quarter and zooming in and out again really fast is scary? Or that people making some of the dumbest decisions ever, and paying for them with their lives is scary? Now I know why I haven't been scared of a movie since I was a kid. Movies like this make me dead inside.